Leadership

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Leadership Succession Planning

• What are we doing?
• Frank McEvoy
• Headteacher

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Leadership Implies Direction

• Where are we going?
• the DCSF has as its focus
• raising pupil achievement
• The NCSL Leadership Library
• Countless examples of what is possible and what
  works
• NCSL, SSAT other Courses and Conferences
• Searching the world for good practice
• As a school community, our starting point and
  focus is the School Mission Statement

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Mission Statement

• Our School Vision or Mission Statement
• it is our understood and shared aim to foster
  a community where life is lived according to
  Gospel values
• Gives direction and purpose to the existence of
  the school
• Helps place the school ethos in context
• Provides a mechanism for checking progress

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A Community based on Gospel Values

• Gospel values
• Tolerance
• Truth
• Justice
• Forgiveness
• Service
• Gentleness
• The challenge is translating these into practical
  activities that engage the student
• Two main themes of
• Social Responsibility Social Justice

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Active Student Leadership

• Whole School Activities
• Diocesan Citizenship Awards
• Student Mentoring
• School Council
• Rotary Youth Leader Awards
• House Charity Initiatives
• Buddy Volunteers Woodlands School
• Youth Ministry Course

• Curriculum Activities
• Sport Leader Awards
• Debating / Critical Thinking
• Sixth Form Learning Conference
• Care in the Community Day
• F1 in schools

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Including All Staff

• Some Current Staff Centred Activities
• Internship
• NPQH
• Leadership Pathways
• Leading from the Middle
• SSAT courses
• Leadership based whole school INSET
• Staff Induction
• All new TLR holders to be on a leadership
  training programme
• Existing TLR holders a phased programme

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An Approach toSchool Improvement
Current
Student Engagement (through leadership activities)
Inspirational Staff Leadership
x
Future
Identifying Leadership Potential
Raising Student Participation
y
Moving fromx toy Sharing the school vision makes
for more effective school improvement
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Supporting Delivery Within the school community

• Supporting Delivery
• Full time Chaplain (also Child Protection
  Officer)
• A Chaplaincy
• A meeting / events area holding up to 50 office
  toilets
• Chapel
• A House System Charity Co-ordinator
• Qualified Social Worker part-time
• Office on-site (Brentwood Catholic Children's
  Society)
• Leadership Partner School (second specialism)
  funding to help support activities

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Supporting Delivery The Brentwood
DiocesanSecondary Heads Association

• There are 18 Secondary Schools in the Diocese
• We employ our own Professional Officer
• 5 schools in Essex area
• Planning leadership support activities
• Groups of teachers working in schools with a
  common ethos
• Starting to work with neighbouring Dioceses
• Supporting the Senior Leaders Association
• Own programme of conferences
• Legal Issues facing schools
• Recruitment professional development
• 14-19 Diploma Issues
• Headteacher Induction Programme

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In conclusion

• TES May23rd 08
• OECD report on school leadership praises the
  systemic leadership of Englands Headteachers.
• Systemic leadership refers to core values such
  as courage, wisdom, sacrifice, stewardship,
  servanthood, conscience and respect.

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Investing in the Future

• Judge each day not by the harvest you reap, but
  by the seeds you plant.
• Robert Louis Stevenson